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of single skulls came from the mound like great balls of clay, the skulls being within 

 the masses. 



Eleven burials were of flexed skeletons, some turned to the right, others to the 

 left. The flexion in this mound was much closer in character, as a rule, than was 

 that noted by us in the Jackson mound, though several examples of loose flexion 

 were met with. The heads of the skeletons pointed in all directions. Twelve burials 

 consisted of lone skulls, while the remaining eleven interments were made up of 

 skulls with a few bones ; various bones without skulls ; several aboriginal disturb- 

 ances where parts of skeletons had been removed in making place for others ; a mass 

 of bones containing three skulls ; one burial which fell in caved sand. 



Fig. 171. — Vessel of eartliemvare. Mouud 

 near Huckleberry Landing. (Half 

 size.) 



Fig. 172.— Smoking pipe of earthenware. With Burial No. 22. Mound near Huckleberry Landing. (Full size.) 



Beneath the center of the base of the mound was a burial included in our list, 

 consisting of a skull, a tibia and a piece of bone belonging to the fore-arm. This 

 burial lay in sand below the level of the clayey deposit and was, perhaps, the initial 

 interment. 



Burial No. 1, a flexed skeleton, had marks of serious inflammation, and Burial 

 No. 2, also flexed, showed a similar condition of several bones. This person, the 

 fragmentary condition of whose bones precluded identiflcation as to sex, seemed to 

 have been peculiarly unfortunate as a radius had an ununited fracture whose rough 

 surface with a certain amount of surrounding callous, showed death to have inter- 

 vened before the parts could unite. This radius was sent to the Army Medical 

 Museum, Washington, D. C. 



